Clinical picture and overall status of newly diagnosed HIV patients at Turku University Hospital in 2013
Eskola, S.; Finnilä, T.; Hohenthal, U.; Oksi, J.
Duodecim; Laaketieteellinen Aikakauskirja 132(21): 2001-2008
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0012-7183 PMID: 29190052 Document Number: 690888
Our patient material consists of the 12 patients diagnosed during one year. In all cases, sex was the likely mode of transmission, the number of partners having been high for some patients. Some of the cases were originally detected as a result of contact tracing. In two patients the disease had already at the time of diagnosis progressed to the AIDS stage, naturally complicating the initial phase of treatment. In a quarter of our patients the disease could have been discovered earlier from the symptoms of the primary infection, provided that testing had been done. Adherence to treatment in a HIV patient and treatment outcome are usually excellent.